--- title: Prince Volodymyr accepted Christianity from Byzantium around 988; th… — Volodymyr, Yaroslav the Wise and the Mongols · tree and pragmatics description: Prince Volodymyr accepted Christianity from Byzantium around 988; the chronicle tells of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river, and the new faith then spread slowly over generations, mixing with old beliefs. Who acts: Prince, chronicle, new faith. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, chronicle, new faith), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson:5 # text = Prince Volodymyr accepted Christianity from Byzantium around 988; the chronicle tells of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river, and the new faith then spread slowly over generations, mixing with old beliefs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 042-volodymyr-yaroslav-the-wise-and-the-mongols.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Volodymyr Volodymyr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Christianity Christianity PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 Byzantium Byzantium PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 around around ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 988 988 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 11 chronicle chronicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:compound 12 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 13 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 mass mass ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 baptism baptism NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Kyivans kyivan PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 faith faith NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 28 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 over over ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 generations generation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:obl 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 mixing mix VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 beliefs belief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=narrate | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **accept** | past | Prince | Christianity | | Byzantium | | 988 *obl:unmarked* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent christianity=Theme from byzantium=Source | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the chronicle | | | | | of a mass baptism of Kyivans in the river | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread** | past | the new faith | | | | over generations; then | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over generation=Location | | 4 | **mix** | gerund | the new faith *not said here* | | | | | with old beliefs | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with belief=Co-Patient | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. 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